Ofsted

/ ˈɒfˌstɛd /

acronym

1. Office for Standards in Education: a government body set up in 1993 to inspect and assess the educational standards of schools and colleges in England and Wales

Example Sentences

The number of childminders has been falling for a decade, from almost 48,000 in 2015 to 26,000 in 2024, Ofsted figures suggest.

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Mr Nisbet said the school had received multiple visits over the past two years from bodies like Ofsted and Northumberland County Council who "deemed behaviour to be as good as what is seen in most high schools throughout England".

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The school's most recent Ofsted monitoring report, published in September, warned that the school needed "to address the persistent disruptive behaviour of a minority of pupils that is leading to high levels of suspension".

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Ofsted is carrying out a criminal investigation into a business educating children who have struggled with mainstream schooling.

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"But the thing that concerned me most was when after contacting Ofsted they told me that there was an ongoing criminal investigation into its mere existence as a potentially unregistered school. That didn't sit well with me."

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